Kantou Heiya

Also known as: 関東平野, The Plain of the Kanto, La pianura del Kantô, La Plaine du Kantô

by Kazuo Kamimura

August 15 1945, a plane from the US Air Forces crashes in a field in the Chiba region. Thus begins, the day of Japan's capitulation, that great bildungsroman about Kinta, a young boy raised by his grandfather after his mother's death.